Azed Competition No. 88 Azed Slip | ◀ 84 | 92 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | Nov 1973 | BLOOMERY | normal | 24 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | J. R. Kirby | May make ore semi-molten by suppressing it | anag. incl. mol(ten) in by, & lit. |
| Second | D. F. Manley | See within my black ore melting | lo in anag. incl. B |
| Third | F. D. Gardiner | It’s full of fire, my bolero dancing | anag. |
| VHC | C. Allen Baker | Beauty, quite topless – a real temperature-raiser | bloom (v)ery |
| VHC | J. Balfour | It’s fired – in brickyard? | i.e. bloomer + y |
| VHC | Mrs A. Boyes | I get hot handling bars – like Daisy Bell? | i.e. bloomer-y; ref. ‘Daisy, Daisy…’ |
| VHC | Rev C. M. Broun | Could be just the place for the Three Children to do some hymn-singing – ‘As plants…’ perhaps! | i.e. bloomer-y; ref. Daniel 3, and Song of the 3 C., Apocrypha |
| VHC | Miss E. Browett | No bed of roses for Abednego? | i.e. bloomer-y, & lit.; ref. Daniel 3 |
| VHC | E. J. Burge | Derby, losing leader, confused about machinery for sacking – masses become heated there | loom in anag. less D; ref. B. Clough, Derby County manager |
| VHC | B. Franco | After my operation they found … bonery? | i.e. bloomer-y; boner = blunder; found1 |
| VHC | J. J. Goulstone | Pig producer puts up low pound in rickety byre | moo L (rev.) in anag. |
| VHC | Dr B. Greer | The new Ulysses (reverse of the old) has captured heart of Circe, maker of pigs | Bloom + r in ye (rev.); ref. L. Bloom in ‘Ulysses’, and Odyssey |
| VHC | Mrs S. Hewitt | Where flaming iron is used, closure of laundry follows blunder | bloomer + y |
| VHC | Dr P. D. King | Gay’s without a word of hesitation: ‘I rage, I melt, I burn,’ | er in bloomy; ref. John G., ‘Acis and Galatea’ libretto |
| VHC | A. Lawrie | With endless blast my ore is reduced | blo(w)+ anag., & lit. |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | A place for flowers? – where they smelt, anyway | i.e. bloomer-y |
| VHC | F. E. Newlove | My bolero’s crumpled: I’ll heat the iron and do it | anag. |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | A slip’s what you’d start with to produce one of the plants that smelt | bloomer + y |
| VHC | T. E. Sanders | What sighing by the lover’s like – perhaps by Romeo about the onset of love? | l in anag.; ref. AYLI ‘Sighing like a furnace’ |
| VHC | Mrs J. Saunders | Where may I heat the iron? My bolero is crumpled | anag. |
| VHC | D. A. Smith | My ore is moulded after most of the blast | blo(w)+ anag., & lit. |
| VHC | G. A. Tomlinson | My speciality’s pig production – get moly or be transformed | anag.; ref. Circe, Odyssey; see moly in C. |
| VHC | Mrs M. P. Webber | What a rose is Queen Elizabeth, prime specimen of your super-hothouse! | bloom + ER + y; variety of rose |
| VHC | J. F. N. Wedge | Hothouse? | i.e. bloomer-y, & lit. |
HCs in competition 88 awarded to: